/dev/null is a pseudodevice on Unix-like systems.

He did not himself care for the loose little talkings, half flat and half sharp, of men when they meet together in idleness.

Really, I like the floral pattern on this Chinese vase.

It may have been Nurse Agnes’ looping signature that touched him off, or the way flesh muffined from the pumps of the fat lady that boarded the bus at his stop every morning: a spark is a spark, and one was as good as any other.